"This work of dANi/ALvo aka Testing Vault shows that the research of that perfect "psychotropic sound" he was searching for describing his artistic and shamanic visions, never ended. "The Opal Sequence" provokes a state of trance that is accelerated and taken to a level ...
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"Monika Enterprise presents the debut album by Cologne artist Sonae: 'Far away is right around the corner'. Containing 10 tracks written between 2012 and 2014 the record deals with reflections about friendship, growing up and everyday life full of hope as far away is ...
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new unplayed copy - just opened shrink to check colour "James Leyland Kirby is a prolific artist with a remarkably long and varied career working inside, outside and beyond the electronic underground. From his roots as renowned audio prankster and sonic agitator V/VM to ...
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"Audion's on a velvet glove tip, wrapping iron-fisted beats in plush sounds that rub you all the right ways -- and leave you red with welts. No wonder so many of the track titles reference sex. Acid lashings, stilleto stabs, and knotty, knotty sub-bass -- this is the ...
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"In the wake of his hit Apples & Synthesizers LP, Toronto's Solvent returns with Elevators And Oscillators, a collection of new material and outstanding remixes culled from the Radio Ga Ga series. The breadth of remix material here, including treatments from around the ...
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"Following his acclaimed Scythians EP on PAN last year, M.E.S.H. returns to the label with his debut album, the opulent and dystopian Piteous Gate. The LP was recorded in Berlin in winter 2015, mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, and pressed on 140g LP and CD." ...
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"The CHARCOAL CIRCLES project by Franziska Windisch explores the relationships between decomposition, sound and movement, object and reproduction. The record is a compilation of graphic and sonic elements: a recorded sound lecture, the notes from this lecture, including ...
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1994 LP by Sunburned Hand of the Man's John Moloney, Rich Pontius and Robert Thomas. released by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley on the "Actuell Ass Run" Series on Ecstatic Peace. comes in generic gatefold sleeve with a sticker on front (w/ series number) and one on the ...
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"Bernard Heidsieck, a poet in action (or poetry in action). A collection of works by Bernard Heidsieck selected from the Centre national des art plastiques collections and presented by Anne-Laure Chamboissier and Philippe Franck at the Sonopoetics exhibition in ...
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out on 14.08. "Perhaps Syria's most successful musical export, international singer Omar Souleyman has returned with his second proper studio effort and most personal album to date, "Bahdeni Nami". For the new album Omar opened his doors to collaborations with a ...
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"There used to be a time when ring tones were important. You were easily recognizable as one of the few people actually owning one of these new gadgets called "mobile phone" (or "handy" as the Germans say). Later you could make an important distinction by choosing a ...
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"Alessio Natalizia draws a stylistic line underneath a strong run of releases over the last couple of years with this extended vinyl set re-working all three volumes of his limited 'Voices' cassette series. Compiled, they mark a point of transition between old Not ...
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"Execptional producer FIS finally drops his debut LP. Following a series of EPs on the likes of Samurai Horo and Tri Angle, again his track strike spectacular balance between the meditative and disruptive. Digital dreaming in storms of analogue bass heavyness, this is ...
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"The one and only Kieran Hebden returns under his Four Tet moniker with his first long player proper since 2013's "Beautiful Rewind", and it's predictably brilliant. Abandoning such trivial conventions as track titles and track lengths, KH dives straight into the deep ...
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"PAN is pleased to announce the debut release from Lifted, an ongoing collaborative project initiated by Matt Papich (AKA Co La) and Beautiful Swimmers' Max D. Drawing on studio sessions recorded in their respective hometowns of Baltimore and Washington DC, the album ...
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out on 14.08. "Yes, double stars do exist. They are a reality. They appear in the firmament - sometimes as an optical and sometimes as a physical phenomenon. Two celestial bodies, working in relation to each other, circling around each other, responding to each ...
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"One of the biggest rarities from the cosmische kraut underground scene has to be Hardy Kukuk's lost 1981 top Berlin School electronic masterpiece Atemnot. Kukuk's synth explorations take the adventures of masters of the genre like Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze one ...
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